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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where the revolving door was fully developed






2. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






3. Printing process in which the printing plate that has raised that is rolled with ink to print.






4. Term used to visualize a recreation of audio-video






5. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






6. Period in which stained glass windows were introduced for church decoration






7. Material used to imbed rings - bracelets - necklaces -etc when making hand-wrought jewelry






8. Pale green






9. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






10. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






11. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing - An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






12. Produces a red dye - the chemical name for rust






13. Known for his glass sculpture






14. A fabric-dyeing method which uses wax to coat areas that don't need to be dyed






15. Joining of two metals above 800F (most common) - the process of joining metal with a filler rod that melts at a temperature below the metal being joined - Uses a molten filler metal to crate joints. Capillary action is required to distribute the fill






16. Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued - and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty.






17. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






18. A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)






19. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






20. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal






21. Term used to describe the many degrees of shading between black and white






22. In lithography - a waxy substance used to draw or paint images on a lithographic stone or plate






23. Incised engraving - the process of printing from engraved plates - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate - ex: the plate is smeared with ink and Then wiped clean. The ink left in the recesses is what makes the print.






24. Network Interface Card; the device that enables a workstation to connect to the network and communicate with other computers.






25. Application of potassium sulphide






26. Creates blue dye






27. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






28. Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed.






29. To raise a relief design on the surface of paper through pressure-raised paper to form image - with or without ink printed






30. A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area - Roman buildings followed this Greek architectural style






31. This technique is so called because its finished prints often resemble watercolors or wash drawings. It is a favorite method of printmakers to achieve a wide range of tonal values. The technique consists of exposing the plate to acid through a layer






32. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






33. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






34. An enameling technique in which thin wire partitions-cloisons-are filled with enamel. It is an art form practiced in ancient Byzantium






35. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






36. Method of painting in which the colors are mixed with egg yolk or other substances - instead of oil






37. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






38. Watercolor with inert white pigment mixed in. Inert pigment is pigment that becomes colorless or virtually colorless paint. In gouache - it serves to make the color opaque - which means it is used at full length - watercolor mixed with a high concent






39. Something that supports a sculpture






40. A water-base paint made with casein (which is a protein precipitated from milk)






41. Paintings with the emphasis on inner emotions - sensations - or ideas rather than actual appearances






42. A decorative design made of one material sewn over another






43. A coarse - inexpensive - woven fabric; often used for making grain sacks






44. The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue - green - and so forth.






45. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






46. Embroidery done in cross-stitch on fine single net






47. A philosophical doctrine and literary and dramatic movement that insists on the existence of individuals as basic and important. believes that the world is inhernetly meaningless and individuals must find meaning in their literal - concrete existence






48. Joining small pieces of metal together using molten metal - bonding metals and alloys that melt at temperatures below 840






49. Which emphasized the artist's free expression of emotion - flourished in Germany in the year immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I. Georges Rouault (1871-1958) - a French painter - is regarded as this type of painter. Portrayal of reality






50. Technique of ornamenting in which small grains of metal - usually gold - are soldered to a flat surface